In response to the Persian Gulf War, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Lenny Kravitz resurrected John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” The song, recorded by a number of artists listed as the Peace Choir, was released on January 15, the UN’s deadline for Iraq to pull out of Kuwait. ...
stuckoutafewinchesabovethegroundandwas 11inchesinwidth—slightlywiderthanabasketball—withahatch(盖子)thathadbeenmovedunnoticed.Thetwo-year-oldboyhadslippedinand wasdrowninginfourfeetofwastewaterinside theeight-feet-deeptank. Madisonsurveyedthesituation.Shewasthe onlyonewhocouldfitthroughthesmallhole. Withouthes...
VICTOR LEWISSMITH
A man named Herr Hanfstaengl was a mutual friend of the two men and was eager to arrange a meeting. “However, in the course of conversation with Hanfstaengl, I happened to say ‘Why is your chief so violent about the Jews. I can quite understand being angry with Jews who have done...
This is the original 2K Sports Theme, as heard in the menu ofMLB 2K6. My opinion of that song has not changed since I heard it six years ago:What the hell is this?It's awful, not awful in hindsight, the way Fall Out Boy was OK back then and you wouldn't be caught dead listen...
One one side of the coin the image was of a “horse drawn charioteer, on the other was the beardless head of Apollo.” In Celtic Britain the horse and chariot had been replaced by a lone horse “which was one of the most potent symbols of the Celtic world.” In his work, Visions ...
we saw the Yellow mountain’s pines which were inclining to the low of the mountain in order to let the snow down. The most famous pine of Yellow Mountain was called the Guest—Greeting pine. cncneuw:amazing place to visit! hiking track isnt hard, but it is very steep (very safe) if...
Lingyan Temple sits in the northwest of Taishan Mountain. It is located in Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan City. With more than 1,600 years of history, the temple has a rich Buddhist heritage. The Thousand Buddha Hall in the temple was frist built in the Tang Dynasty. There are hun...
In 1937, on the eve of Il Duce’s visit to Sicily, one excited Sicilian exclaimed, “We await our father, the Messiah. He is coming to visit his flock to instill faith.” He was not alone in his veneration. Pope Pius XI, ever grateful to Mussolini for his key role in signing the...
“Meng Jiangnv” is a folk tale about Meng Jiangnv weeping over the Great Wall. Legend has it that in the period of Qin Shi Huang when the labor duties were heavy, a young man named Fan Xiliang was forced to leave his wife Meng Jiangnv three days just after the wedding, and to ...